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Re: Patch to make generated manpages use GFDL
- To: <licensing at gnu dot org>, "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Patch to make generated manpages use GFDL
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 22:31:33 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
[ licensing@gnu.org included ]
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> This patch makes the generated manpages go under the GFDL. I've made
> the licence notices for them say "no Invariant Sections", since the
> sections that are invariant don't go in the manpages, and I've kept
> the Front Cover and Back Cover texts. The notices refer to the GFDL
> section of the manual, though that section is only in the full manual,
> since that is what the generated binutils manpages do.
licensing@gnu.org, can we make such changes as simply, from a legal point
of view?
In general, what kind of license change (of this kind) can we make, and
how easily?
> It passes "make info" and "make dvi" and regenerating the manpages.
> OK to commit to mainline and branch?
>
> 2001-06-07 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
>
> * doc/gcov.texi, doc/invoke.texi: Use the GFDL for the generated
> manpages.
> * doc/gcov.texi: Use @table @gcctabopt.
> * doc/gcov.1, doc/gcc.1: Regenerate.
If licensing@gnu.org replies positively, this patch is fine on both
branches.
Gerald